# Research Operations Lead, Biology at Anthropic

> Run day-to-day operations for the biology lab, including procurement, inventory, equipment, facilities and vendor management.

- Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com)
- Location: Boston, MA
- Places: Boston, United States
- Posted: 2026-10-30
- Team: Life Sciences
- Work mode: On site
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5467690008
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/research-operations-lead-biology-anthropic-kn7fmdcbgkd9273yr7fx1wstv98hc318

## The posting

Research Operations Lead, Biology
Anthropic · Boston, MA

## **About Anthropic**

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

## About the team

Anthropic's Life Sciences team is building a world-class research group focused on making fundamental biological discoveries. The team combines cutting-edge AI with hands-on biological research, positioning Anthropic at the forefront of AI-accelerated scientific discovery.

## About the role

We are hiring a Research Operations Lead to be the operational backbone of our team: the person who makes sure scientists can walk in every morning and get straight to science. You'll take on the operational systems we've started — procurement, inventory, safety, equipment, space — make them better, and scale them as the lab and its needs grow. We're hiring for trajectory as much as for what you've already done: the scope of this role will grow with the size of the team, and we want someone who's excited by that. This role is a rare opportunity to build the operational foundation of Anthropic's biology team and to grow with it. The systems you put in place will shape how a frontier AI company does experimental biology for years to come. If you're energized by high-ownership operational work in the service of ambitious science, we'd love to hear from you.

## Key responsibilities

- Own day-to-day operations end to end: ordering and inventory, equipment scheduling and upkeep, consumables, shipping and receiving, and general space organization
- Build on and extend the operational systems a growing group needs: procurement workflows, inventory and sample tracking, equipment maintenance and calibration schedules, onboarding and training, SOPs
- Manage facilities and space: coordinate buildouts, moves, and equipment installs; act as the primary interface to building management, contractors, and Anthropic's central Workplace and IT teams
- Own the operating budget: track spend against plan, run the capital equipment purchasing process, and partner with Finance on forecasting and reporting
- Manage vendor and supplier relationships: including contract research organizations: source and qualify vendors, negotiate quotes and service contracts, schedule preventive maintenance and field-service visits, and hold suppliers to their commitments

## Minimum qualifications

- Have managed the day-to-day operations of a life sciences lab — equipment, inventory, ordering, safety, space, and scheduling
- Have hands-on procurement and vendor management experience: sourcing suppliers, negotiating quotes and service contracts, and coordinating field-service and maintenance technicians
- Have tracked and managed an operating budget: purchase orders, invoices, spend-vs-plan, and capital requests

## Preferred qualifications

- Are the person everyone in your group already comes to when something is broken, missing, late, or unclear — and you like being that person
- Enjoy engaging with scientists on the science itself — you want to understand what's happening at the bench well enough to anticipate needs
- Are results-oriented and practical and pick up slack even when it goes outside your job description
- Enjoy a role that stretches from the hands-on to t